Active-TV Technology for iPhone and iPod touch

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Navigate YouTube available at iTunes App Sore

An easy to use iPhone and iPod touch App that enables both new and advanced YouTube users to get the best from YouTube.

Browse video Standard Feeds, Categories, Channels and Playlists. Then organize new videos into your own favorites and playlists. Make playlists private or public. Subscribe to other user's playlists and video collections for future viewing. Subscribe to videos matching search-words.

Search for new videos tagged for your language or geographical region, using local keyboard. Explore for new videos via easy switching of user ID to the owner of interesting videos - then explore their world.

All actions are kept in sync with PC, Mac or Apple-TV access to YouTube. Available at Apple App Store.

About 80% of responders shared the negative view of what has so far been offered to the consumer. Here is a good example:

"I concur with Steve Jobs: I run to my TV for escape. I carry a BlackBerry during the day and am not afraid to use it. I have a Bluetooth earpiece that I wear even in the office. I'm wireless autosyncing every 2 minutes. BUT when I get home at night, especially if the day was bad, I watch old cartoons, 'Three Stooges,' or 'Murder, She Wrote'-as far removed from my reality as I can find. You come anywhere near my TV with that Internet Ethernet cable, and I will shoot to kill."

The NYTimes author responds with “As for me, I say: agreed. Call me when it's all in one component with one remote and one cable to the TV.”

Active-TV technology has taken the critic above into consideration more than any other PC-industry approach. The objective is a single STB with the video-content delivered directly to the box. Thin-client technology is integrated into the box, resulting in a single IR remote. Active-TV technlogy does not turn a PC into a media-hub or media-server – keeps the PC out of the critical path – better supports notebook users.

I think the Steve Jobs’ Front Row UI for the TV is wonderfully better than the current Media Center 10-foot UI. Active-TV colaborators are working to build Media Applications (TV-web channels) which are not like PC web pages but are interesting, useful and attractive to the critic above. Too many of the existing MCE Spotlights look like web pages – and remind me and the critic above of looking at the PC monitor at work.

Media Applications must make the TV more interesting, more relaxing and more enjoyable, even for our critical reviewers. The kids can choose MTV-Overdrive. The comment: “far removed from my reality”, indicates an interest in long-tail-content. The Media Application is ideally suited to finding and enjoyably presenting long-tail-content – An example of this is the BBC iMP.

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Free Windows download

Want to see how it Active-TV Technology for the PC looks on a TV, then downloadthe PC emulation of TV operation. D-Link's site also includes active-TV technlogy support for the DSM-520. (Windows XP or MCE). Navigation is via the left-right arrows and F12 is used for 'back'. The bundle uses an easily changed example menu system.

Active-TV technology enables the Set-Top Box (STB) or TV to display TV-web with the same universal access and opportunity available to PC with PC-web.

Active-TV technlogy uses the same PC browser to process PC-web and TV-web pages, but a browser plug-in sends the TV-web image to a networked thin-client for display on TV.

A networked home PC or laptop computer which assits with formating the TV-web image, is known as an Extended-PC.

Video can be streamed directly to the STB or TV; or it can pass througth the ExtendedPC, where it may be reformated. The video encoding format (CODEC) may be changed (transcoded) by the Extended-PC to accomidate STB or TV capabilities.

Build a TV-web channel

A networked PC and TV supporting Active-TV Technology enables viewing of TV-websites. Download a free TV-web channel below. They can be reused when constructing a new channel. Documentation is also available. Make sure all files (such as C:\Program Files\Common Files\TV-Websites) have permission for all Users to access.